Cheap Dell Laptop Inspiron 1.5 GHz 1300 £299 delivered. (merged) [CLOSED]

xueta

kingkano wrote:

With permission from Marlowtech I am happy ti help out 20 people with this contact if you pm me. First in

thanks

Hi,
Do you have any confirmation of whom you are giving your credit card details to?
Thanks.

kingkano

susi wrote:

O.K. guys, Im totally lost here now, I tried like most of you to get the £299 laptop and was unsuccessful, am I right in thinking that now it is better value to upgrade?????
My son is after a laptop, just to do his worksheets, surf the net, regular stuff really. I have been looking for the inspiron 6000, thats what I use and have been highly delighted with it, but I got a good deal, it was around £500. Im not struck on the celeron processor, not that I know anything at all about them just that most people say to steer away..........................Is this basic deal o.k. for me (if I am ever able to get it!!!) He would want to upgrade the ram to 512, do we go with basic, then upgrade later or do we go for the upgraded version?????????

tough question. what your getting for the extra 100 (well minus cashback if you do it) is a larger hard disk, the larger screen and 512mb of memory. The memory costs around 25 off crucial, the screen I would go for its around 30 off dell anyways... the hard disk for those requirements is not an important upgrade. so I still think this 299 deal, as a basic laptop with a memory upgrade from crucial is the best of the 2.

If you dont mind paying the little extra, you'll certainly order off the website quicker and easier lol. So thats definitely worth considering!

kingkano

xueta wrote:

Hi,
Do you have any confirmation of whom you are giving your credit card details to?
Thanks.

If he is a scam he is a very very good one lol. as the emails come from dell (checked and verified)... and the dell documents arrived from him while he was still chatting to me on the phone - all correct etc.

But you should decide for yourself.

coolforcash

kingkano wrote:

tough question. what your getting for the extra 100 (well minus cashback if you do it) is a larger hard disk, the larger screen and 512mb of memory. The memory costs around 25 off crucial, the screen I would go for its around 30 off dell anyways... the hard disk for those requirements is not an important upgrade. so I still think this 299 deal, as a basic laptop with a memory upgrade from crucial is the best of the 2.

If you dont mind paying the little extra, you'll certainly order off the website quicker and easier lol. So thats definitely worth considering!

So effectively you're paying £25 more (£80 difference assuming cashback less the memory and screen extras of £55 stated above) to get 20gb more hard drive and a lot less hassle! Are all the other specs the same? If so, sounds like a better option to me and makes it more future proof!

kingkano

the other specs all seem the same to me. as you say its 25 more for the hd basically (and the less hassle bit haha) so if you can afford it.... go for it. Altho do remember maybe your cashback wont track, but should be fine really....

I am pov tho so I needed it as cheap as I could!

daveonline

Just purchased this laptop today at 11:45 as the saturday paper ad said offer extended by 3 days. Didnt like the idea of using an 0870 number so got a dell number from https://www.saynoto0870.com , needed to be put through but got there in the end.
The only thing i didn`t like was the salesman tried all sorts of tricks to try and get me to upgrade firstly the memory - saying the laptop wouldn`t do much without the upgrade ( very nearly put me of buying the whole thing ).
Secondly the upgraded service package saying that the consumer rights act isn`t black and white and that if it went wrong i`d need to prove it was the products fault ???.
Its a good price just not that sure about dell now !!!

scoobysnaks

Ive bought 2 laptops direct from dell in the last month and managed to get 15% off both of them over the phone.

Waiting until you get the product then phoning up and saying you wish to return it as it was an impulse buy for example which you cannot really afford (within the 7 days) is the last thing dell wants and will result in you being offered possible discounts of 15% or more.

2 laptops for under £600 + cashback.

Cheers Dell.

kingkano

nice idea scoobs might try that. even tho you gotta py for return they still gave discounts?? did they actually refund the money to you yet?

Fenboy_Steve

daveonline wrote:

Just purchased this laptop today at 11:45 as the saturday paper ad said offer extended by 3 days. Didnt like the idea of using an 0870 number so got a dell number from https://www.saynoto0870.com , needed to be put through but got there in the end.
The only thing i didn`t like was the salesman tried all sorts of tricks to try and get me to upgrade firstly the memory - saying the laptop wouldn`t do much without the upgrade ( very nearly put me of buying the whole thing ).
Secondly the upgraded service package saying that the consumer rights act isn`t black and white and that if it went wrong i`d need to prove it was the products fault ???.
Its a good price just not that sure about dell now !!!

Just a word of caution, but of the 7 attempts I've made to purchase one of these during the last 4 days, 5 concluded in me being cut off but the other 2 ended such that I believed I'd actually purchased the computer. On both occasions, after fiurther investigation, it transpired that I had been given false names, contact extensions and booking references. What more can you do?

Premier_2

A word of caution to anyone thinking of submitting credit card details over email - don't!

It's as unsecure as submitting them to a non "https" web address.

Yes, I have no doubt that the person you are emailing is a bona-fide Dell employee, but you cannot be sure what email servers are storing your credit card details when you send an email anywhere (unless you use encrypted email which you can't as Dell won't have your encryption key)

So as you wouldn't send your credit card details over a non-secure website (i.e. an http address), then I would strongly suggest caution sending them via email.

You may well save a few bob on a laptop from Dell, but how much might you lose when some fraudster obtains your details off the server?